I always wondered how to combine an aggressive, tactical style with the Jänisch in combination with the strategic openings like the Giuoco Pianissimo or Four Knights should White be a non Ruy Lopez player.

I bought these two books (book 1 on theory and book 2 on tactics) a whilst ago. If I remember well, they were not expensive. I am new to this opening, and since I really do not know the theory, I comment much about it. But the books look interesting overall, I would say a good purchase.

I do not know much about the Jänisch, but I always wondered how to combine an aggressive, tactical style with the Jänisch in combination with the strategic openings like the Giuoco Pianissimo or Four Knights should White be a non Ruy Lopez player.

There is also the new book Schielmann - The Complete Guide by Roman Jiganchine which is available on ForwardChess. I see he's a master living in Canada and that he's written quite a few books. I don't have the book so I can't offer a review.

I thought the video was 17 euros? How do you get it for 5 - is that by subscribing to the site?

Also, do you still play this opening? (or at least consider it still part of your repertoire?

The video may be 17 euros – I don't know, I'm not interested in videos – but the single ebook is just 4.99, and signing up for the site is free. Yes, I think you can pay more to get access to all the ebooks, but I'm not interested in that either.

Yes, I still play the Schliemann – when anyone gives me the chance anyway, which isn't very often nowadays.

Everyman already produces electronic versions via Kindle and their own chess-playing app. And the whole book goes to print as a PDF. What we want is to produce ChessBase compatible ebooks as well. Do you actually have any helpful suggestions as to how to do that without copying and pasting text manually? Or are you just being a smartarse?

I'm not trying to be a smart-arse, it probably just seems that way because of, you know, the internet.

As it happens, I just bought Hansen's Closed Sicilian MBM. Game 5 in the PGN file begins:

So, if Everyman sold me the EPUB but did not include a PGN, I would write a script to extract all the HTML content to a TXT file, then in a text editor transform that to PGN by adding the tags and braces. But I would never advise Everyman to do it that way. Instead Everyman should create some html-classes to distinguish pgn-moves from pgn-comments from editorial-comments. Then create a custom css to render the html-classes as desired. Now the script that extracts the HTML content from the EPUB can read the html-classes to automatically generate a valid PGN file.

EPUB is a popular way to feed the ebook creation process, because it is an open format and is based on HTML, while Amazon's format is proprietary. EPUB is the "first step" (initial) format of the content in many production processes and supply chains.

BTW, the file MBMCSicilian.pgn is NOT valid pgn, it violates the specification in numerous ways. So even though I do not have to extract from the epub, I still have to spend a lot of time in a text editor getting their pgn file to conform to the pgn standard. The pgn I quoted above already contains a mistake according to the standard. See if you can spot it.

Posters keen on this defence could also consider the following chess24 (2016) release by a leading practitioner:

'Hi everyone, my name is Roeland Pruijssers. I am a Dutch Grandmaster. In my first series for chess24 I want to share my analysis, games and ideas in the Schliemann-Jaenisch Gambit. It's an opening which I've been studying and playing for about five years now - with very good results.'

Yes, that's an essential online publication for serious Schliemann enthusiasts – and it's only five euros for permanent access

I thought the video was 17 euros? How do you get it for 5 - is that by subscribing to the site?

Also, do you still play this opening? (or at least consider it still part of your repertoire?

Posters keen on this defence could also consider the following chess24 (2016) release by a leading practitioner:

'Hi everyone, my name is Roeland Pruijssers. I am a Dutch Grandmaster. In my first series for chess24 I want to share my analysis, games and ideas in the Schliemann-Jaenisch Gambit. It's an opening which I've been studying and playing for about five years now - with very good results.'

Yes, that's an essential online publication for serious Schliemann enthusiasts – and it's only five euros for permanent access

You don't have that now. Witness the copying and pasting. ChessBase is great, but it's just software. If it doesn't do exactly what you need (and I predict it doesn't), get another program. Or roll your own.

Everyman already produces electronic versions via Kindle and their own chess-playing app. And the whole book goes to print as a PDF. What we want is to produce ChessBase compatible ebooks as well. Do you actually have any helpful suggestions as to how to do that without copying and pasting text manually? Or are you just being a smartarse?

If you can think of a format that allows a direct transition to ChessBase game files, please let me know

You don't have that now. Witness the copying and pasting. ChessBase is great, but it's just software. If it doesn't do exactly what you need (and I predict it doesn't), get another program. Or roll your own.

Posters keen on this defence could also consider the following chess24 (2016) release by a leading practitioner:

'Hi everyone, my name is Roeland Pruijssers. I am a Dutch Grandmaster. In my first series for chess24 I want to share my analysis, games and ideas in the Schliemann-Jaenisch Gambit. It's an opening which I've been studying and playing for about five years now - with very good results.'

Bye.

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